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1Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 AmigaDOS HD partitions 3 Tape 4 NFS partitions 5 FTP 6 NetBSD partitions, if doing an upgrade. 7 8The install or upgrade miniroot filesystem needs to be transferred 9to the NetBSD swap partition. This can be done from AmigaDOS in 10the case of a new install or upgrade, or from NetBSD when doing an 11upgrade. See the "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" 12section for details. 13 14The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 15for installation depend on which method of installation 16you choose. The various methods are explained below. 17 18To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition: 19 20 To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to 21 get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install 22 on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. All of the 23 set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory 24 instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This 25 will also simplify the installation work later on. 26 27 Note where you place the files you will need this later. 28 29 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 30 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 31 32To prepare for installing via a tape: 33 34 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow 35 get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on 36 your system on to the appropriate kind of tape, 37 in tar format. 38 39 If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest 40 way to do so is: 41 42 tar cvf <tape_device> <files> 43 44 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device 45 that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly 46 something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). 47 If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. 48 "<files>" are the names of the "set_name.nnn" files 49 which you want to be placed on the tape. 50 51 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 52 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 53 54To prepare for installing via an NFS partition: 55 56 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 57 only for those already familiar with using 58 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 59 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 60 should help, but is not intended to be 61 all-encompassing. 62 63 Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into 64 a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory 65 mountable by the machine which you will be installing 66 NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the 67 /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting 68 mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. 69 Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of 70 the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine, 71 if the NFS server is not on a network which is 72 directly attached to the NetBSD machine. 73 74 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 75 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 76 77To prepare for installing via FTP: 78 79 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 80 only for those already familiar with using 81 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 82 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 83 should help, but is not intended to be 84 all-encompassing. 85 86 The preparations for this method of installation 87 are easy: all you have to do is make sure that 88 there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve 89 the NetBSD installation when it's time to do 90 the install. You should know the numeric IP 91 address of that site, the numeric IP address of 92 your nearest router if one is necessary 93 94 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 95 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 96 97If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 98NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 99file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 100following: 101 102 Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 103 your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 104 upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 105 "base11" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 106 you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 107 the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 108 configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 109 110 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 111 the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 112